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📰 GCC 16.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 Support, Algol 68 & Many C/C++ Improvements GCC 16.1 is now available as the first stable release of GCC 16 as this year's major open-source GNU compiler feature release... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-16.1-Released #amd#gnu#opensource

📰 AMD Posts Newest Linux Patches To Accelerate Page Migration For Better Performance Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week was the newest revision of a patch series originally started in early 2025 by a NVIDIA engineer for accelerating page migration. Now being worked on by AMD engineers, this accelerated page migration via batch copies and hardware offloading continues to show promising results... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Accelerated-Page-Migration-v4 #amd#kernel#linux

📰 AMD Introducing New Linux Driver For Their Halo Box: For Its RGB LED Light Bar AMD CEO Lisa Su back at CES 2026 showed off the Ryzen AI Halo box as a mini PC built around their excellent Strix Halo SoC. The Ryzen AI halo box is to serve as an AI development platform to compete with the likes of NVIDIA's DGX Spark and Dell GB10. This week is the first time I am seeing new Linux driver activity specifically referencing this exciting AMD "Halo Box" system... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Halo-Box-RGB-LED-Driver #amd#linux

📰AMD's Lemonade SDK 10.3 Now 10x Smaller By Getting Rid Of Electron Lemonade as the open-source local AI server backed by AMD and supported across AMD CPUs / GPUs / NPUs on Windows and Linux is out with a big update... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Lemonade-10.3 #amd#linux#opensource

📰 RADV Vulkan Driver Adds Memory Protection Using AMD Trusted Memory Zone The newest Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" feature enabled by AMD engineers is protected memory support using the Trusted Memory Zone (TMZ) support on newer GPUs... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-RADV-Protected-Memory #amd

📰 The New Linux Kernel AI Bot Uncovering Bugs Is A Local LLM On Framework Desktop + AMD Ryzen AI Max Earlier this month on Phoronix we were the first to draw attention to a new fuzzing tool / AI bot uncovering kernel bugs by Greg Kroah-Hartman, the "second in command" for Linux kernel development and stable maintainer. Greg has now shared more light on the "gregkh_clanker_t1000" for this tool that has been uncovering more Linux kernel bugs the past few weeks... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Clanker-T1000-AMD-Ryzen-AI-Max #amd#kernel#linux

📰 LACT 0.9 Released With UI Updates, Voltage-Frequency Curve Editor For NVIDIA LACT, one of the leading open-source solutions to provide a graphics card management GUI that works across AMD / NVIDIA / Intel graphics hardware on Linux, is out with a major update this weekend... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/LACT-0.9-Released #amd#intel#linux#opensource

📰 Many Intel & AMD Laptop Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1 As usual in recent years, there were many x86 platform driver changes merged this cycle for benefiting modern AMD Ryzen and Intel Core (Ultra) laptops. A variety of new features and laptop hardware support additions were merged for Linux 7.1... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-x86-Platform-Drivers #amd#intel#linux

📰 Linux May Drop Legacy 3Com, AMD, and Xircom Ethernet Drivers The Linux kernel may drop 18 old Ethernet drivers for ISA- and PCMCIA-era hardware as maintainers question whether the aging code still has active users. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/linux-may-drop-legacy-3com-amd-and-xircom-ethernet-drivers/ #amd#kernel#linux

📰 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Benchmarks: The Best Desktop Performance For Linux Developers, Creators Today we can finally share performance benchmarks of the long-rumored AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor. This new halo product for the Ryzen 9000 series desktop line-up offers captivating performance for developers frequently compiling code, creators, technical computing workloads for students or hobbyists or those not able to afford a Threadripper / EPYC type workstation, or similar heavy computing use. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-9950x3d2-linux #amd#linux

📰 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Benchmarks: The Best Desktop Performance For Linux Developers, Creators Today we can finally share performance benchmarks of the long-rumored AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor. This new halo product for the Ryzen 9000 series desktop line-up offers captivating performance for developers frequently compiling code, creators, technical computing workloads for students or hobbyists or those not able to afford a Threadripper / EPYC type workstation, or similar heavy computing use. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-9950x3d2-linux #amd#linux

📰 Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT Finally Working On Linux Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team is the one that worked on improving the old AMD Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics card support by making AMDGPU driver improvements so it could become the default for these Southern Islands and Sea Islands GPUs rather than the legacy Radeon kernel driver. That meant better performance, RADV Vulkan support out-of-the-box, and other benefits. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Harvested-GPUs-Linux #amd#kernel#linux